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| Name | Robert S. Edington |
| Address | 50 St. Emanuel St.
Mobile, Alabama , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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November 18, 1929
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| Died | July 26, 2020
(90 years)
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| Contributor | User 490 |
| Last Modifed | Mr. Matt
Sep 05, 2022 09:18pm |
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| Info | Robert Sherard Edington
Edington, a Mobile native, is a local attorney and former state senator and representative. He has served as a legal counselor in the Mobile area for more than 50 years. As director of the Mobile Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Program, he helps provide legal services to the underprivileged.
During his eight years of service in the Alabama House of Representatives and four years as a senator from Mobile County, he aided in the legislation that established the Alabama Historical Commission, the USS Alabama Battleship Commission and various historic districts in the city of Mobile. For his legislative efforts, Edington received a national award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, D.C.
During his two terms as chair of the USS Alabama Battleship Commission, he supervised the $7 million restoration project after destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina. He also served as former chair of CSS Alabama Association, an organization responsible for underwater archeological expeditions at the site of the wreck of the CSS Alabama off the coast of France. Artifacts from these recovery missions are now displayed at the Mobile Museum of History. Edington is the narrator of a History Channel documentary titled “Raise the Alabama.”
While in the Alabama Legislature, Edington also drafted and co-sponsored legislation for the creation of the University of South Alabama and the USA College of Medicine. He also worked for years toward the development of Bishop State Community College.
For 20 years, he served as the Consul of Guatemala at Mobile and organized the first local trade mission to Central America. Edington received the U.S. Department of Commerce Achievement Award for his efforts. For four years, he served on the national Advisory Board for the U.S. Small Business Administration.
Prior to his governmental service, Edington served as an Air Intelligence Officer for a Navy fighter squadron in the Korean War and retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of commander.
Edington’s community activities include the coordination of U.S. Navy ships for Mobile’s Mardi Gras festivities for the past 40 years. He has also been supportive of Penelope House, a place of safety and protection for victims of domestic violence and their children.
Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Mobile Council of the Navy League, a member of the Kiwanis Club of Mobile and an elder at Spring Hill Presbyterian Church. He is also a charter member of Mobile United.
He is married to Pat Edington, and they have two children: Sherard, a Presbyterian minister in Nashville; and Virginia, a businesswoman in Daphne.
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